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176 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 4, 2013

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you’re returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It’s a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?Extramarital affairs, sadomasochistic tendencies, sexual dissatisfaction and consummate fantasies, ruptures, disappointments and, also, happy endings. In this novel Yasmina Reza intertwines the lives of eighteen characters that, at first glance, seem to have nothing to do with one another. But as the reader is hypnotized by the voices that make up the plot, he will discover some unexpected relationships.
And later he says, do not worry my boy, the first marriage is always hard. I then asked him, did you get married several times? — But no, that’s why.Couples fighting in supermarkets. Children crying in the middle of the night. Sons accompanying their mothers to their doctor's appointments. Women mistaking jealousy for love. People learning to be lonely. Reza unburies the misery and violence that forms the core of many relationships. Some people might call these clichés but Reza's words ooze with originality and rawness. It's not about coming up with new ideas, it's about expressing old ideas in new ways.